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Bret Stephens: Would love to see Hannity react when Dem declares climate change emergency
The Hill ^ | February 15, 2019 | Joe Concha

Posted on 02/15/2019 10:31:53 AM PST by EveningStar

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To: EveningStar

If climate was such an emergency, why didn’t Obambi declare that in 8 years in office?


41 posted on 02/15/2019 11:26:19 AM PST by rfp1234 (I don't watch CNN for the same reason I don't drink from the toilet.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Warning about an Emergency Act “precedent” is fatuous. The Social Democrats are now determined to make their next accession to power to be the final change of parties and will use every tool to hand which will facilitate that goal. I expect that to happen in 2020 because they got away with a lot of vote fraud in 2016 while almost openly doing it. They won’t even be bashful about voting all the illegals and adding votes at every precinct they control as well as using the traditional methods. This will happen unless Trump can and will force positive voter ID, one day voting in person at the designated polling places, and no absentee ballots.


42 posted on 02/15/2019 11:27:48 AM PST by arthurus (2|)
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To: tcrlaf

When the SDs get the Presidency and one House again none of that will matter any more. They feel deeply that they were cheated of their accession to total power in 2016 and will not let it slip from their hands again.


43 posted on 02/15/2019 11:29:26 AM PST by arthurus (2|-->)
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To: Col Frank Slade

What will poor New York Times columnist Bret Stephens do when laws no longer exist, and individuals decide that power comes out of the barrel of a gun?


44 posted on 02/15/2019 11:34:21 AM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Alberta's Child

So is one of the other troskyites, Johna Goldberg he is already on the list.


45 posted on 02/15/2019 11:38:47 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: sergeantdave

These morons were always globalist interlopers of real conservatives, and are enemies of the Republic.


46 posted on 02/15/2019 11:40:48 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: antidemoncrat

I think it is no secret that when the Democrats get back in power, they will go all out to destroy the country as we know it. We are headed to another civil war but to many are just acceptable of the continuing new normal of post sh*t America.


47 posted on 02/15/2019 11:44:18 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: EveningStar

They already did. It was called the Paris Accord, which was a Treaty that Obama signed Unilaterally.


48 posted on 02/15/2019 11:48:15 AM PST by rb22982
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To: shanover

Marxist Socalism will not leave freedom alone, so freedom will have to wipe out Marxist Socalism.


49 posted on 02/15/2019 12:01:28 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: EveningStar

Hasnt Obama already done that?


50 posted on 02/15/2019 12:02:08 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: EveningStar

I would hate to see the reaction if a Democrat President invoked emergency powers to ban cars or guns. It would be immediate civil war.


51 posted on 02/15/2019 12:02:31 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: EveningStar
What Stevens is overlooking is that this isn't a case of the President making up some extra-Constitutional "emergency powers." This is a specific, limited emergency power that Congess already granted by statute to the President, to spend unspent but appropriated funds

I don't think it was wise for Congress to delegate that authority to Presidents, but it did. So it is perfectly reasonable for him to do use that power.

That would be different from an extra-Constitutional climate change power grab that is not authorized by a statute.

52 posted on 02/15/2019 12:07:35 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: EveningStar

Yeah, and what counter measures will be taken upon said declaration?

Immediately cease all non-essential vehicle use?

All air travel?

Liquidate all existing herds of cattle with the biggest freaking 21-day BBQ you ever saw?

Shut down all non-nuclear power plants?

Pass laws preventing volcanic eruptions? And forest fires?

Brett Stephens is a very reasonable sounding dou***bag.


53 posted on 02/15/2019 12:09:28 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: EveningStar

Bret, man made climate change is a hoax. The illegal invasion at the border is reality.

Go suck swamp water, Bret.

5.56mm


54 posted on 02/15/2019 12:09:40 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Electric Graffiti
WATCH: 3 Blondes Sing Pro-Border Wall Tune – You’ll NEVER See This On CNNBrick by brick-
55 posted on 02/15/2019 12:11:11 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: EveningStar

So he’s saying a Democrat President might declare a national emergency because of cow farts?


56 posted on 02/15/2019 12:18:57 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: tcrlaf

“Climate change” the hoax is all about approaching confiscatory taxation to fuel whatever “fundamental transformation” to the economy floats the democrat party’s boat at the time. It’s a deliberate scam to destroy an economy; that is the only aspect of “climate change” that amounts to a national emergency. Firearm confiscation, as pelosi threatens via future dem declaration of national emergency, is an ill-disguised scam to declare a hot war on half of the nation’s population, and will, as yet another dem Frankenstein, inevitably involve radically increasing taxes. Trump’s declaration does neither.


57 posted on 02/15/2019 12:27:43 PM PST by DPMD
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To: EveningStar

We’ll be laughing when the demockkkrat POTUS will have to fight off lawsuits from republican governors...


58 posted on 02/15/2019 12:30:24 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("itYou can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Col Frank Slade

Many demokkkrats in Congress were part of the coup attempt against a duly elected POTUS.


59 posted on 02/15/2019 12:31:35 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("itYou can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: EveningStar

Is he unaware that national emergencies are declared by presidents for various reasons? Heck, a dozen of Barkey’s are still in force. One I know of goes back to Carter, the other worst president. Trump haters are too quick to pounce and look more like fools as a result.


60 posted on 02/15/2019 12:45:00 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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